Faculty Accomplishments

Received a grant from the National Science Foundation (subaward from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) for “Dissecting the dynamic evolution of paralogs in shaping trait variation across the Solanum pan-genome.” The project is for five years. (2022)

Received a grant from the Consulate General of Italy, Boston, to support an Italian tutor.

Maria Alexandra Gomez was a Co-PI on National Science Foundation (NSF) project: MRI: Expansion of the Molecular Education and Research Consortium in Undergraduate Computational Chemistry (MERCURY) via Addition of High Performance Computers awarded to Furman University. The project is for three years. 

James Hartley (Economics) received a grant from the Institute for Humane Studies for a student reading group in the fall. The project is for 4.5 months.

David Hernández was accepted into the Faculty Development Seminar (FDS) at the Palestinian American Research Center (PARC), run by the State Department. Provided there is a cease-fire, Hernández will travel to Israel and Palestine in mid-May for two weeks with other scholars from around the country. The PARC FDS is a unique opportunity for collaboration, bridge-building (at a critical time), and a turn in Hernández's scholarship.

Received a Centennial Grant for Supplemental Research Support from the American Political Science Association for “Making Waves: How Party Insurgents Transform American Politics (Even When They Lose).” The project is for one year. (2022)

Fellowship from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation for "Korean American Feminist Writing, Animal Tales, and Family History".

Craig Woodard received a National Science Foundation (NSF) DBI Grant, "UBM-Institutional: Collaborative Research: Four College Biomath Consortium," with Amherst, Smith and Hampshire Colleges. (Mount Holyoke co-PI: Martha Hoopes), September 1, 2011-August 31, 2016.

Received a subaward from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) via the Planetary Science Institute (PSI) PDART for Acquisition of Multi-Parameter LIBS Reference Database of Geological Materials. The project is for three years.

Barbara Lerner (Computer Science) received a sub award from Harvard under National Science Foundation (NSF) award 1450277 “S12-SSI: Collaborative Research: Bringing End to End Prevenance to Scientists.” The project is for one year.